Wednesday, August 15

Dowdell en France? Oui!

I hope Zabian Dowdell worked in a few French classes while at Virginia Tech, because the Unofficial Favorite Undrafted Player of supersonicsoul.com will be suiting up for Nancy of the Pro A League this year.

For those who don't know, Nancy (city motto: Non inultus premor, "No one touches me with impunity") is located about 4 hours east of Paris, or just 2 hours south of Luxembourg, in case Zabian is in need of visiting the world's only sovereign Grand Duchy. Hey, some people are into that sort of thing, okay?

As always, we wish Dowdell the best of luck in Nancy. Let's hope he's able to parlay any success in Europe into an NBA contract in the future.

In other summer league invitee news, Julius Hodge has signed with Cimberio Varese of the Italian League.

You have several divisions (the Pro A being the best, after there is the Pro B then the National 1, National 2 and finally the National 3) after the season the worst teams of a division are relegated while the best ones are promoted.

The Euroleague is another competition where 24 teams, among the best in Europe, are facing to become European Champion. Teams playing in the Euroleague are still playing in their national league of course.

I guess you don't know soccer very well but it's the basketball equivalent of the "Champions league"

I've gotten into soccer a bit more in the past couple of years, so that explanation actually makes a lot of sense. I guess as a Sonic fan, I'm glad teams don't get relegated in the NBA, or else the Sonics would be playing in the WNBA this year after the way they've played the last 2 seasons.